- The play, translated into English and retitled Bitter Oleander, had a brief Broadway run in 1935.
- In 1938, the play was adapted in Argentina as a film of the same title, starring Margarita Xirgu and her theatre company.
- Denis ApIvor composed a ballet version in 1953 for The Royal Ballet.
- The 1957 opera Bluthochzeit by Wolfgang Fortner is adapted from Henrique Beck's German translation of the play.
- In 1959, BBC Television made an adaptation of the play.
- In 1964, Vérnász, an operatic adaptation of the play with a score by Hungarian composer Sándor Szokolay, was first produced in Budapest. The opera has been produced again in the years since.
- In 1973, the play was produced in English translation at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan, New York.[3]
- The play was adapted as a Moroccan film in 1977, also titled Blood Wedding.
- In 1981, Spanish film director Carlos Saura directed a dance film based on the play, also titled Blood Wedding.
- In 1986, the BBC World Service broadcast a radio adaptation of the play starring Anna Massey, Juliet Stevenson, and Alan Rickman.
- A 2006 Haitian operatic adaptation of the play, titled Le Maryaj Lenglensou, was produced by Dutch filmmaker Hans Fels[4] with a score by Haitian composer Iphares Blain. A documentary about this production premiered at the 2007 Netherlands Film Festival.[5]
- In 2007, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new production of the play directed by Pauline Harris, and featuring Barbara Flynn as The Mother. It used Ted Hughes' translation from 1996.[6]
- In 2015, a Spanish film adaptation titled The Bride directed by Paula Ortiz was released.
- In August/September 2016, the play was produced at a theater in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- An adaptation by Marina Carr, directed by Yael Farber, was performed at The Young Vic from September to November 2019.[7]
- A Dutch translation by Dolf Verspoor, directed by Wim Vandekeybus, was performed by Toneelgroep Amsterdam at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam in 2023.[8]
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